In the Middle School, parents, teachers, and students work together as a community of learners with shared goals and a common mission.

We pride ourselves in being a developmentally responsive learning environment that promotes the healthy academic, social, and emotional growth of young adolescents. Students can pursue their academic passions, feel empowered to take intellectual risks, and develop leadership skills.

Teachers work with students to translate high expectations into concrete, supported standards and clear models of excellence. We have developed a curriculum that is relevant, challenging, integrative, and exploratory, the focus of which is to develop habits of mind and heart so that each student can fully develop his or her intellectual, personal, and spiritual potential. Teachers attend to the diverse learning styles, multiple intelligences, and varied interests of each student.

Every student is matched with an advisor who oversees the student's social, emotional, and academic growth.

Our teachers value working with adolescents and have the training to do so effectively. The partnerships we build with students open doors to significant academic experiences. We believe education doesn't only happen in the classroom and create additional opportunities for interaction and learning before school, during lunch and after school. A variety of activities are offered - from book clubs to jazz band to art studios. During the school year, we visit museums and theaters to make an area of study come alive. In addition, we experience the greater Chicago area’s outdoor education resources to work on team-building and explore scientific phenomena within a natural setting. Every student is matched with an advisor who oversees the student's social, emotional, and academic growth. We emphasize trust, respect, and individual & community responsibility in addition to core Jewish values of tikkun olam (healing of the world), gemilut chasadim (acts of loving kindness), tzedakah (charity and justice), and tzelem elohim (treating ourselves and others with dignity and respect). We believe kol Yisrael arevim zeh ba zeh (we are all responsible for one another). To create and sustain a healthy culture, the Middle School has initiated an advisory program to support meaningful relationships and promote enhanced learning. Every student is matched with an advisor who oversees the student's social, emotional, and academic growth.

Our students graduate from middle school with the knowledge, skills and habits of mind and heart that are essential for success in Chicago's highly competitive college preparatory high schools along with the foundation of a strong Jewish identity. Day School graduates have been recognized as student leaders with a powerful academic foundation and good character. The area's most highly selective schools prize our students.

We take our mission seriously: To Teach Them Diligently.